A Depersonalization Disorder anonymous support group with information on diagnosis, treatment, symptoms, along with personal stories and experiences with Depersonalization Disorder. You're not alone.
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or not, in all honesty. I'm at the point that although I do depersonalize a lot, it has yet to cause me too much stress/interfere with social life, so I wouldn't consider it maladaptive...
I'm on here because, well I don't really know why. I've been "depersonalizing", if that's...

since I was 12 years old and I am 18. I have went to so many doctors and they all tell my its just anxiety. I know I have anxiety but it's not that. I know the world around me is real but I feel numb like my emotions are suppressed and that physically my body is a little numb...

after 3 years' struggle. It was an extremely challenging period where I almos lost the functions of speaking and writing and even listening comprehenshion. What a remarkable achievement by coming back from the freaking Hell. What an achievement...

Depersonalization Disorder.
I began to be really depressed when i moved away from my family and really good friends. I got into this horrible depression and wanted to die so bad. So, my parents decided to move to another state which btw im in right know and my depression has...

..... I feel as tho when I look back on something I have done during the day or anything in the past its like it's not me that was there? like I was in overdrive trying to ignore my problems or just not me.. it's hard to explain but like when I wake up in the morning I...

hey how are you doing
you dont know me but i decided to come back and read about people going through depersonalization , why ?
1 year ago it happened to me and i felt the same way you are feeling right now i literary though i was dying and i felt i had no...

am I the only one who questions their body parts?
To me, when it happens I feel like I'm inside a movie, sort of. And I'll look at my hand and it doesn't feel like mine, and it looks strange to me. And say if I get up to walk, I'll be like "are these REALLY my legs? How am I...

now I know you're going through a very very hard time but you will get better you will get through this, you're growing as a person I had this "disorder" for 5 years I smoked pot had a very bad experience and that's when it all started probably like many of you reading this, it...

i had a really bad childhood. for me personally i find it hard to deal with and i am not peapred to write it down just yet out in the open. but i believe that my bad childhood, is the root of my problem.
it started when i was 13. one night after watching a movie. i fetl suddenly...

All of the stories posted before me are basically the same, and I don't blame anyone who has written before me, because i feel exactly the same way. I just want to ask a question and would really appreciate if someone could reply to it: are there groups for...

if everything around me is even real. It just looks so fake, artificial, like a simulation. I get out of bed, not feeling like I'm controlling my own movements. I feel stuck inside a body that I don't have any control over.
People, they seem so lifeless, as unreal as the...

I had to go all day freaking out that people could tell I "wasn't there". It felt like I was in a movie. I could touch something but not feel it. My face was disappearing in the mirror. I was walking on air. I had so many panic attacks. It's gone now, but I hate when it comes...

depersonalization disorder for just over a year now. At first I pushed it away as being tired, but when it never got better, we went to the doctor (many doctors I might add) and I was diagnosed.
It makes me feel like I'm going insane, and it actually got so bad that in January...

but I'll just describe my experiences and hope that someone gives me advice. When I was a kid, I'd have these episodes. I felt like I was as small as the microscopic pinpoint of a needle, but if you looked a little closer suddenly I ballooned into a gigantic, boundless...

for a little over a year. It has been the worst thing to ever happen to me. This is the scariest mental illness I have ever experienced, and I'm hoping through this site to gain a little hope. Right now, it feels like it's never going to get better. I'm going to college next...

first time I experienced my depersonalization disorder. I'm now 24 years old and still can say I'm suffering from this never ending disease. I currently only focus on feeling detached and wondering why I constantly feel this way, everyday is a daily struggle of not being able to...

while now, but only received a diagnosis a couple of weeks ago. It's as if you're a pair of eyes sat inside a body, watching yourself move and watching life go by. My senses are affected by it: while I can feel pain, it feels detached from me, if that makes sense. It acts up...

and I noticed that nowadays it's getting better. I'm socializing with people and it makes the world more "real" for me. It's like I'm getting back to normal. I read about people that they still have depersonalization even after 7 years and this worries me. Mine started on August...

When I try to explain to people how being depersonalized feels I often use the phrase " Almost like you're high but not" and I usually get a "Lucky" or an "Thats awesome" but it's really not. It sucks so badly. I don't like this and I would do almost anything to have this feel...

said that doctors who would have to do autopsies on people that they knew back in the day and they would have to depersonalize theirselves to be able to operate on these people. Because they wouldn't be able to do it without depersonalizing themselves. So found that interesting...

I am here to talk to anybody who wants to talk about what it's like, or even just to chat. I've never experienced it, but I know of and a bit about it. Basically, just anyone who needs to chat, message me.

I, too, have depersonalization/derealization disorder. I used to have it constantly, then it became intermittent, and like you, I was terrified of what happened, when and if it would happen again, and I spent my days in fear, fear of the event itself, and fear of the return...

that wants their sex drive back! I started taking an herbal supplement from GNC called steel libido and it totally helps. I was hesitant at first but I did research and nothing in it is harmful. I take 4 before my boyfriend and I hook up and it totally does the trick. Takes a...

I suffer from depersonalization . I basicaly feel detached from the world, its kind of a dream like feeling that comes and goes, but seems to come more often rather than goes. Anyway if anyone knows what i mean let me know

lost control of myself and went crazy.. All I remember is I was laying on the bathroom floor cause I was feeling a bit nauseous then I got really anxious and starting having an episode then all of a sudden I'm in my room balling my eyes out on my bed and my dad is screaming at...

You've heard a lot about perception I'm guessing. But probably more along the lines of "oh that's what you think, that's your perception", as if it's solely about opinions. Turns out treating your problems as a label, calling it a disorder, or whatever that's victimizing you, is...

with this (because I won't see my therapist and yeah) but I have talked about it before to my doctor and therapist and they told me I could possibly have it. It's something that comes and goes. I can be like this for 4 or 5 months and I snap out of it for awhile. But I don't...

for a little over 11 months now.
It's taken over me, taken who I used to be, the happy young girl. Sociable, empathetic and caring, all gone.
What is left is this empty shell working on its own accord, everything on autopilot. And then I look at my hands.
These strangers hands...

I just don't feel like im really here, I feel like Im in a movie watching myself or something. I don't know it's weird, I feel disconnected from my body. it's like my mind and my body are separate. when I look in a mirror I don't recognise myself. like I know it's me but it...

as an off day with dpd? Is there a day where you don't notice it, but then you have an off day where it just hits you? The stress of not trying to have another panic attack, and the stress of the anxiety not rising? Is it just me? It seems stress is common with dpd.

what is happening to me for a year and a half because I haven't been able to explain what is wrong with me. Then I was searching up what makes you feel like you are out of your body. When I talk to people I get super nervous and then everything goes through my head and I get...

panicking about who I Am..
I can't look in the mirror sometimes without getting panicky and feeling disconnected from the person staring back at me... is that really me?
I freak out if I'm alone for too long by myself with no distractions..
can anyone else relate? I'm scared...

about depersonalization disorder he said that it is part of a defense mechanism that your body uses when a great amount of stress is put on you or anxiety. It kind of helps you not get to the breaking point. Kind of hard to explain what he explained to me. But it is kind of cool...

or anything, because apparently it's really hard to get psychiatric help if you're not suicidal, but I've slowly come to the realization that I may or may not have been dealing with depersonalization and dissociation for most of my life. I'm 22, and the earliest I remember...

that I suffered from depersonalization. Then life happened, well... it seems like I've watched it happen. I'm not writing to complain about this, I'm actually looking to see if anyone would want to chat with my about their experiences.
with love
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I walk around my house or life in general and just don't feel in control... Like I feel like I'm a robot or something? Not the out of body experience, just the feeling of not being in control at all... And I have existence issues like what does it really mean to "be" and what is...

I'm not letting anything behind this time. This is me.
I have been feeling like this for about year and a half. It is part of what I think might be Depersonalization Disorder. And if it isn't, it's damn close.
The thing is that I only feel half-aware of what I do, like I can...

management issues. He never hit anyone but he would yell and throw things. I grew up terrified he was gonna snap and start beating us one day. My teachers always said I daydreamed too much, but it wasn't too bad growing up. I started to really disconnect when I smoked pot. The...

ago. I have suffered through depersonalization since I was 18. I took this disorder as something I would never be able to overcome but there is a light at the end of the tunnel! I have been on lexapro 10 mg since November of 2014 and didn't notice really much of a difference...

for almost a year now.It never stops, I dont feel anything, my thoughts are racing In my head and I am lost all the time.It started when I was in a plane.I was going to Italy and when we landed I started feeling weird. I thought it was the different climate or the air pressure...